Requires State domestic violence public awareness campaign to add information on coercive control; requires annual reporting on activities of campaign and expands range of languages.
What changed between versions
Subsection b(2) now includes the phrase 'subject to the availability of funds' before the requirement to include recognition of coercive control indicators in the public awareness campaign. This makes that specific content conditional on budget rather than mandatory.
A new sentence was added to subsection f stating that the director's acceptance of external grants, services, or property shall not diminish any State funds appropriated to the public awareness campaign. This protects state funding from being offset by outside money.
The entire explanatory statement section (which described the bill's purpose and listed the seven indicators of coercive control) was removed from the reprint version, likely because it is maintained as a separate document in the legislative process.
Co-sponsors Assemblywoman Swain and Assemblyman Tully were added to the bill header, reflecting committee action on March 10, 2025.